AccelWater | AGENSO

AccelWater’s main objective is to optimize freshwater water consumption in the food and beverage industry under a water-waste-energy nexus by introducing beyond state-of-the-art water reclaiming, reusing and Artificial Intelligence enabled monitoring and control technologies that will permit the use of reclaimed water in the manufacturing processes of food and beverages. On the same time, it will allow waste and energy reclamation, optimization and management, and consequently will result to environmental sustainability, cost savings and the development of added value products and value chains through material recovery.

AccelWater project’s framework will consist of 4 main pillars (Water, Waste, Energy, and Artificial Intelligence enabled Smart Monitoring and Control), and will focus on sectors of the food and beverage industry that have high water use and produce widely used products. AccelWater will work on brewery, dairy, tomato, pig meat processing, and fish industries across Europe. These industries represent some of the most active sectors of the food and beverage industry while being some of the biggest consumers of freshwater in industrial areas. Specifically, there are more than 10,000 breweries across Europe that produce more than 406 million HL of various beers annually, while more than 46 billion metric tonnes of fresh dairy products were consumed in EU in 2015. Accordingly, the tomato processing sector has more than 200 processing entities in EU that process annually 9.5 million tons of fresh tomatoes; the EU pig meat sector produces almost 23 million tons annually, while the EU fish sector produces more than 6 million tons of fish annually and thus being the 5th largest producer globally. Finally, there are more than 50,000 companies processing meat and fish across EU.

ICT Solutions

for optimizing F&B production with focus on water and environmental sustainability

Training

Spread the knowledge regarding the water-waste-energy nexus to the current and next generation of F&B employees

Waste reduction

Development, integration and demonstration of waste valorization technologies for the F&B industry

Water Management

Freshwater consumption optimization in the F&B industry

Project Management and Coordination

AGENSO will manage and coordinate AccelWater project, taking into consideration the financial, administrative and technical aspects of the project.

Networking, Communication and Dissemination

The activities include the Clustering and Cooperation with other initiatives for promoting water-smart economy and society; the creation of the project Communication and Dissemination Plan; the development of the web-portal as well as the creation of pages and groups in various Social Media; the development of the AccelWater Dissemination Materials.